22 occurrences in 13 translations

'Sticks' in the Bible

And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingWater ContainersPolesSkinning

And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingStrength Of AnimalsAnimal ReproductionWater ContainersPoles

But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of AnimalsWeak Animals

And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambAtonement, Types OfNew Year, TheAdventureSandalsStaffHasteShoesClothing OneselfHasty ActionPreparing To TravelWalking With A Staff

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtIsrael In The WildernessFirewoodSabbath Violated

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:

Verse ConceptsPrincesSceptreExcavation

So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;

Verse ConceptsFoxesAnimals, Types OfThree To Four HundredTailsThree Hundred And Abovecats

Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.

Verse ConceptsFireArsonbranding

The charge was {two-thirds of a shekel} for the plowshare and for the mattock, and {a third of a shekel for the pick} and for the axe, and to set the goading sticks.

Verse ConceptsGoadsCoinageAxesForks

He said to David, “Am I a dog that you come against me with sticks?” Then he cursed David by his gods.

Verse ConceptsConfidence, Based OndogsUngodly Cursing

So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

Verse ConceptsFlourLonelinessOlive OilSmall Things God UsesBarrelsResigned To DeathFirewoodDyingcooking

My strength is dried up like baked clay;my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You put me into the dust of death.

Verse ConceptsTongueFeverThings Stuck TogetherCreatures Returning To DustGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

Because of the sound of my groaning,my flesh sticks to my bones.

Verse ConceptsSkinThings Stuck TogetherDamage To The Body

As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsMadnessFire Of EvilMadmenArrowsjoking

(Dalet) The infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsTongueBeggingSeeking FoodNo FoodYoung People Suffering

And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:

Verse ConceptsShieldsJavelinsSeven Years

On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like an igniter among sticks and a burning torch among sheaves, and they will burn up all the surrounding nations right and left. Then the people of Jerusalem will settle once more in their place, the city of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsWoodFire Of JudgementBurning Plants

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